Category Archives: Pond Plants & Aquatics
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – Acorus, Pontederia and Iris
Selection of three water plants in one!Pontederia forms large heart shaped ovate leaves that are bright green coloured. In late summer erect stems bearing deep blue flowers that form long spikes of tubular shaped florets.Acrous has dark green leaves are aromatic when crushed and in June and July green horn shaped blooms appear which prove
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – Yellow Water Lily – Nymphaea
Everything you need to get started!The perfect Waterlily for the deeper water in the centre of a pond.In summer from June to September wide pale yellow flowers will appear that are centred with a cluster of gold stamens, the petals are upright and whorled in shape making this a truly striking flower. Bronze flushed olive
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – Pink Water Lily – Nymphaea
The perfect Waterlily for the deeper water in the centre of a pond.In summer from June to September wide pale pink flowers will appear that are centred with a cluster of gold stamens, the petals are upright and whorled in shape making this a truly striking flower. Bronze flushed olive green foliage enhances this beautiful
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – Red Water Lily – Nymphaea
The perfect Waterlily for the deeper water in the centre of a pond.In summer from June to September wide pale red flowers will appear that are centred with a cluster of gold stamens, the petals are upright and whorled in shape making this a truly striking flower. Bronze flushed olive green foliage enhances this beautiful
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – White Water Lily – Nymphaea
The perfect Waterlily for the deeper water in the centre of a pond.In summer from June to September wide pale white flowers will appear that are centred with a cluster of gold stamens, the petals are upright and whorled in shape making this a truly striking flower. Bronze flushed olive green foliage enhances this beautiful
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – Red, White and Yellow Water Lily – Nymphaea
The perfect Waterlily for the deeper water in the centre of a pond.In summer from June to September wide pale flowers will appear that are centred with a cluster of gold stamens, the petals are upright and whorled in shape making this a truly striking flower. Bronze flushed olive green foliage enhances this beautiful floral
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – Butomus
This kit contains everything you need to get started!Butomus is a herbaceous perennial with grassy leaves and stems bearing fragrant rosy-pink flowers which are produced in late summer.
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – Blue Iris
Everything you need to get started!A perennial iris that grows in shallow water. It has long sword-shaped leaves and beautiful blue blooms from May to June.This kit contains:- 1 planting basket- 1 plant- Pond Soil- Gravel
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – Yellow Iris
Everything you need to get started!This gorgeous water plant produces beautiful foliage from very early spring and rich butter yellow flowers in the summer.This kit contains:- 1 planting basket- 1 plants- Pond Soil- Gravel
Acorus calamus – Sweet Flag
An ideal native plant for wet areas and a perfect plant for the ever popular pond plantings or bog gardens. This grass like herbaceous perennial has narrow, arching sword like leaves that form natural looking clumps over time but will not become too invasive. The dark green leaves are aromatic when crushed and in June
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – White Iris
Everything you need to get started!This Iris has lovely white flowers during the summer and lush green foliage from spring time.This kit contains:- 1 planting basket- 1 plants- Pond Soil- Gravel
Carex muskingumensis
This clump forming graceful Sedge is an herbaceous, semi-evergreen perennial that makes the ideal addition to a pond side planting scheme, or even sat in shallow pond margins.This moisture loving plant has light green blade like foliage that forms in sprays. In summer stems of golden brown flowers appear that shimmer in the wind and
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – Typha
Everything you need to get started!Typhas or Bulrushes are common in many water side settings in the UK but many are big plants that need to be planted in a larger landscape. Between July and August brown oblong flower and seed heads are produced and hover about the foliage, they are numerous and make for
Eriophorum angustifolium – Cotton Grass
Known as Cotton grass for a reason as its white hairy flower heads make it very distinct. These flowers appear in summer on thin green stem like leaves that are clump forming, spreading and vigorous and love being in wet boggy conditions.Ideal plant for waterlogging soils or on the banks of a pond. Cotton grass
Complete Water Plant Pond Kit – Pontederia
Everything you need to get started!Pontederia forms large heart shaped ovate leaves that are bright green coloured. In late summer erect stems bearing deep blue flowers that form long spikes of tubular shaped florets.This kit contains:- 1 planting basket- 1 plants- Pond Soil- Gravel
Houttuynia cordata ‘Chameleon’
A colourful little character that makes excellent groundcover that brighten up a sunny or partially shaded border with its cheerful foliage that consists of green with a cream margin and are often flushed with red. In late spring dense spikes of white flower emerge from the crown. The Houttuynia quite happily tolerates most soils and
Oenanthe fistulosa ‘Flamingo’
A gorgeous little aquatic that makes its mark in a pond margin setting with its variegated foliage which is green, pink and cream colouring with heavily toothed edging, these leaves intensify in colour in the autumn as the colder weather expresses its deciduous nature. In summer small white flowers are numerous and these will attract
Pontederia cordata – Pickerel weed
The delightfully named Pickerel weed is a large perennial aquatic marginal plant.It forms large heart shaped ovate leaves that are bright green coloured.In late summer erect stems bearing deep blue flowers that form long spikes of tubular shaped florets are produced making for a stunning sight on a ponds edge.Pontederia grows well if planted in
Ranunculus flammula – Lesser Spearwort
Another of our great aquatic native plants that can be planted in up to a depth of twenty centimetres of water on a ponds edge. This herbaceous perennial is noted for its bright yellow glossy flowers that give away its part of the Buttercup family, they have a long flowering period starting May but continuing
Sagittaria graminea – Grassy Arrowhead
Hardy aquatic plant that is a dwarf species is a great for the margins of a pond.The plant characteristics consist of narrow mid-green leaves are perennial and clump forming. Between May an August this plant produces a single, three petalled pure white flowers which are born on single stems and are spread generously throughout the
